Experience

GDIT LTD
• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Principal Technology Consultant

  • Aug 2018 - Present

CSRA Inc
• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee
• Enterprise Storage Team Lead and Project Manager

  • Jul 2014 - Present


FINRA

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Delivery Lead

  • Feb 2011 - Jun 2014

  New Job, new Challenges. Responsible for FINRA's storage arrays. (Mostly EMC), and Capacity planing with BMC's BCO product. New Job, new Challenges. Responsible for FINRA's storage arrays. (Mostly EMC), and Capacity planing with BMC's BCO product.



Presidio Networked Solutions

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Center Engineer

  • Nov 2010 - Feb 2011

  Installations of NetApp arrays, as well as helping customers with there NetBackup environments Installations of NetApp arrays, as well as helping customers with there NetBackup environments



Sirius XM Satellite Radio

• Principal Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Nov 2010

  Appointed to lead project to select vendor for development of a mid-tier SAN at DC Data Center. Consulted with NetApp, Sun, HP, and EMC/Dell on design criteria for SAN and selected NetApp as vendor to deliver a cost-effective alternative to support less demanding applications in alignment with the Hitachi design. NetApp systems saved the company more than $1 million over the standard SAN architecture, and slashed overall costs by 70%. Appointed to lead project to select vendor for development of a mid-tier SAN at DC Data Center. Consulted with NetApp, Sun, HP, and EMC/Dell on design criteria for SAN and selected NetApp as vendor to deliver a cost-effective alternative to support less demanding applications in alignment with the Hitachi design. NetApp systems saved the company more than $1 million over the standard SAN architecture, and slashed overall costs by 70%.



XM Satellite Radio

• United States
• Telecommunications

• Principal Engineer, IT Operations

  • Jan 2001 - Jul 2008

  commercial free satellite radio to consumers via automobile radios, home receivers, and portable devices with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion.; Currently fulfill activities of Storage Manager, Engineer, and Architect for Hitachi, NetApp, HP, and various storage vendors while simultaneously managing storage network on Brocade and McData fiber channel switches. Accountability for budgets ranging from $2.5 million to $5 million and managing as many as 12 direct reports. Operated, maintained and controlled budget for more than 600 Intel/AMD based servers, and managed 600TB of SAN Storage. Directed build out of DC Data Center from evaluation and identification of property, through site renovation and upgrade to Tier III datacenter with capacity to support redundant network architecture, high capacity cooling for blade server deployment with support for high density computing. Designed and Implemented Active Directory Organizational units and group policies to enforce PCI Level 1 and SOX compliance. Achieved level 1 certification, and recognition as the only datacenter to acquire this designation on the first test. Successfully created state-of-the-art Data Center with the capacity to accommodate 10+ years of business growth. Central location of datacenter saved company more than $140,000 monthly in lease fees, and provided tax exempt status with the DC government that created an additional annual savings of $2 million. Designed and developed Virtual Environment using VMWare's ESX servers that enabled elimination of 140 legacy servers with growth to 252 VM servers currently. Captured more than $2 million in cost savings since inception of servers, and to date VMWare contributes to more than 25% of the company's total server count and continues to increase quarterly with ongoing per-server savings of $10,000 quarterly. Capitalized on opportunity surrounding Tape Backup during system migration that created an additional savings of $2 million. Show less



IMPACT INNOVATIONS GROUP

• United States

• Senior NT Engineer

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Privately-held IT outsourcing and technical staffing company recognized for its highly regarded methods to optimize and efficiently manage IT departments for middle market companies.; Developed Exchange messaging migration plan for a classified Department of Defense facility. Privately-held IT outsourcing and technical staffing company recognized for its highly regarded methods to optimize and efficiently manage IT departments for middle market companies.; Developed Exchange messaging migration plan for a classified Department of Defense facility.



U.S. Navy

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Engineer

  • Aug 1980 - Aug 2000

  Cryptologic Technican for the U.S. Navy for 20 Years. Involved with subsurface collection systems.

• CTM1

  • 1980 - 2000

  I could tell you but then I'd have to .... Well you know.



NAVAL INFORMATION WARFARE ACTIVITY

• Senior Network Engineer

  • Jan 1980 - Jan 2000

  of the Command Configuration Control Board (CCB) accountable for defining policy relating to information Technology across the command's Wide Area Network (WAN). Set up, managed, and operated Command's Internet Server, including email, Anti-Virus, Security, RAS server, and DNS. Installed and managed Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS 1.2) throughout 500 workstation WAN. Participated in configuration and installed six new high-end file servers valued at $120,000 to replace antiquated Alpha servers. Earlier Show less